Problem-Based Learning & tutoring · medical students

Problem-Based Learning and tutoring for medical students.

PBL Coach provides one-to-one online sessions for medical students. Most sessions are built around a Problem-Based Learning case: you receive it in advance, prepare a written response, and work through your reasoning with an experienced advisor. The same advisors also provide tutoring on particular topics or difficulties that arise during a medical degree. It is supplementary support, alongside university teaching.

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The old Edinburgh medical school, a stone building with a columned portico, where Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine — The old Edinburgh medical school, where Arthur Conan Doyle studied medicine.

What is PBL

How Problem-Based Learning works, and why it is used in medical education.

Subjects & topics

Choose a subject and topic; each becomes the basis of your session.

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Pricing

Session prices by advisor level, with shared and membership options.

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Edinburgh

Based in Edinburgh.

PBL Coach is based in Edinburgh, a city with a long tradition in medicine and surgery. The Edinburgh surgeons established their Surgeons' Hall in 1697. In the nineteenth century James Syme, and then Joseph Lister — who developed antiseptic surgery — were Regius Professors of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, where Arthur Conan Doyle also studied medicine.

Carved stone pediment dated 1697 above a doorway of the Old Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh — The 1697 doorway of the Old Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh.

Bronze plaque commemorating James Syme and Joseph Lister, Regius Professors of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh — Plaque to James Syme and Joseph Lister, Regius Professors of Clinical Surgery.